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Sentences ending with tight

No, I hear with my ears open and my heart close tight. [11]
Some people think they're cold, but I've arranged to make them fairly tight. [9]
Every man has some vice or other, if it's only hanging on to virtue too tight. [11]
The window was shut tight. [11]
Years upon years of delusion of her people, of sacrifice to policy, had at last become a self-delusion, to which her eyes were not full opened yet--she sought to shut them tight. [11]
But Chiltern was in the saddle, with knees pressed tight. [9]
Then I carried him to a tree and bound him tight. [11]
And when I have written, good mother, close the tablet and seal it--close and tight. [10]
His big gnarled hand enclosed the hand of Barode Barouche, then he suddenly closed on it tight. [11]
Not that she had any compunction in keeping Janet's secret, even from Insall; but sometimes as she contemplated it the strings of her heart grew tight. [9]

Sentences containing tight two or more times

The Secretary of War, you know, holds a pretty tight rein on the press, so that they shall not tell more than they ought to; and I 'm afraid that if I blab too much, he might draw a tight rein on me. [7]
I feel like sitting down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, straining tight, as tight as possible, and flying away! [2]

More example sentences with the word tight in them

Besides, the wild wood was a second home to me, and now I was shut up in a convent where the silence about me crushed me like a too tight bodice. [10]
An' he died with his teeth so tight shut I couldn't have pried them open with a knife. [13]
Yes, your nimble wit has helped you out of many a tight corner. [9]
And, by a wise provision in the Constitution of our glorious American Union, no one state could tie the nuptial knot so tight that another state could not cut it at a blow. [9]
The doors and windows were sealed tight, and there was nothing to be seen; yet she was more than ever conscious of a presence grown more manifest. [11]
He clutched the whiskey-horn tight and broke into a run. [11]
The saloon below, where we had our tea, was lighted indeed, but sealed so tight as to be insupportable; and the cabin above, stifling too, was dark as a pocket. [9]
But her lips were now tight closed, her glance now and anon seeking mine, and then falling with an exquisite droop to the coverlet. [9]
Just as I was passing a place where a kind of a cowpath crossed the crick, here comes a couple of men tearing up the path as tight as they could foot it. [5]
Her last appearance was at the age of seventy-six, which is rather late in life for the tight rope, one of her specialties. [6]
And your mother--that was a woman!--did me a kindness once when I was in a d---d tight place, and I never forgot it. [4]
The grate, which was a wide one, was wound and screwed up tight, so as to hold no more than a little thin sandwich of fire. [12]
Her usual dress was a green gown, in colour not unlike the curtain of the office window, made tight to the figure, and terminating at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a peculiarly large and massive button. [12]
You never hurt Vanne Castine--" Her fingers twitched in her lap, and then clasped very tight, as she went on: "You never hurt him, and yet he's tried to kill you in the most awful way. [11]
Pierre was there too, buttoned up since early morning in a nobleman's uniform that had become too tight for him. [2]
Every jacket is too tight for you. [10]
A woman's intuition told her that locked tight in his heart was what he longed to say, and could not. [9]
I stuck tight to the wall and kept mighty still, though quivery; and I wondered what them fellows would say to me if they catched me; and I tried to think what I'd better do if they did catch me. [5]
My lips closed tight, and I felt a pang at my heart. [11]
Her lips drew tight, and her face seemed suddenly to get thinner. [11]
She closed it tight, and fastened it, then stood for a moment in the middle of the room looking at both door and window. [11]
The Honourable Hilary's tight lips trembled. [9]
She was caught tight in the heart-screw. [6]
But she held tight hold of her father's hand and looked up at the doctor bravely. [9]
He keeps a tight hand over the ship-yard here and over the others too by the harbor of Eunostus. [10]
Give me a tight frigate that leaves a singing wake. [9]
Nothing daunted by this reception, he clung tight to his opponent, and bit and hammered away with such good-will and heartiness, that it was at least a couple of minutes before he was dislodged. [12]
So I judged they had our gang in a pretty tight place right at the outstart. [5]
At a dance they can be hidden under tight sleeves, but how hot that would be in the 'Schwabeln' and 'Rai'! [10]
And there was the Truro Franchise Bill hanging over him, with only a week left of the session, and Lovejoy's and Duncan's men sitting so tight in their seats! [9]
He noticed that the tight grip of the hand on the little statue of the riverman had made the fingers pale. [11]
In reply to the last interrogation, the small servant, with a look of infinite cunning mingled with fear, screwed up her mouth very tight and round, and nodded violently. [12]
He covered up the face, and, returning to the shed, placed his coat against the boards to deaden the sound, and hammered them tight again with a stone, after having straightened the grass about. [11]
They dress as the country requires, and they are strong fighters against our soldiers who are burdened with heavy muskets, and who defy the climate, with their stuffed coats, their weighty caps, and their tight cross- belts. [11]
Bagosh, I say that time: 'Bargon he have put a belt round the world and buckle it tight to him--all right, ver' good. [11]
The rope came taut, and presently he drew her up again to safety, and while she laughed at him and mocked him, he held her tight under his arm, and carried her to his lodge, where he let her go. [11]
In his lightest talk he was almost always edging towards a practical object, and it was an interesting and instructive amusement to watch for the moment at which he would ship the belt of his colloquial machinery on to the tight pulley. [6]
It is a superb figure, clad in a high tight bodice and long skirts simply draped so as to show every motion of the athletic limbs. [4]
He wore a suit of Western clothes as a military man wears mufti, if not awkwardly, yet with a manner not wholly natural--the coat too tight across the chest, too short in the body. [11]
I never saw such a tight time for money in Harrisburg. [5]
Conrad blushed and stood folding his arms tight over his breast, while his sister received Margaret's confession with the suspicion which was her first feeling in regard to any new thing. [8]
Sit tight, and stick to the simple life-- that's your game as I see it. [9]
I used to spend much valuable time in planning a barn that should be tight and warm, with a fire in it, if necessary, in order to keep the temperature somewhere near the freezing-point. [4]
His chimneys don't smoke, his windows are tight, he knows what systems of heating are the best, and whom to go to: he knows what good plumbing is. [9]
You enter in small boats--and a tight squeeze it is, too. [5]
He wore his sleeves tight and his stock high, as in the days when William the Sailor was king in England, and his long gold-topped Prince Regent cane was the very acme of dignity. [11]
The general became silent, angrily pulling down his tight scarf. [2]
He had reddish side-whiskers, and he reminded her of a buzzing toy locomotive wound up tight and suddenly taken from the floor. [9]
He was horrible scared, but he laid into his work for all he was worth, and hung tight to the arm-loops and made his legs fairly fly. [5]
But when your road gets in a tight place, you turn up and expect to walk in ahead of my friends. [9]
Somebody told, I reckon; for in about eight or ten minutes them two pals come tearing forrard as tight as they could jump and darted ashore and was gone. [5]
Thus the day passed, and the gentlemen of the Lovejoy and Duncan factions sat, as tight as ever in their seats, and the Truro Franchise bill still slumbered undisturbed in Mr. Chauncey Weed's committee. [9]
I look down on that people dancing there, quiet and still, and I hear some laugh at me, and now and then some one say a good word to me that make me shut my hands tight, so the tears not come to my eyes. [11]
Gabriel Druse was on him, gripping his arms so tight to his body that his swift motion to draw a weapon was frustrated. [11]
Wrangle pulled hard on a tight rein. [13]
I followed the old servant up the great stairs, gulping down a sob that would rise, and clutching my mother's gown tight under my arm. [9]
When they were off at last, Angelo said, with bitterness: "I wish you wouldn't wear such tight boots, they hurt my feet. [5]
Did the Indians notice that there was going to be a tight squeeze there? [5]
If you do not, you must build a tight fence round the plants, which the toad cannot jump over. [4]
I shall have no financier, no strategist for a tight place. [9]
But there was never anything to shoot at--windows all tight and secure. [5]
In this bounty nature was more liberal to the tight little island than to any other spot in Western Europe, and England took early advantage of it. [4]
Do not try my patience too far, man, or else--Hold your head tight on your shoulders or you will have to seek it at your feet; and what I say I mean!--Now, good-night! [10]
Of Mr. Cyrus Meeker, whose mustaches, at the age of five and sixty, are waxed as tight as ever, and whose little legs to-day are as nimble as of yore. [9]
But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast. [5]
By little and little the water fell away, so that in ten year after that, a second knot was made, and you must unwind so much rope, or the bucket swung tight and empty at the end. [12]
I might have known that, with my lost papers on the way to France, they must hold me tight here till I had been tried, nor permit me to escape. [11]
Well, it's a kind of a tight place for Becky Thatcher, because there ain't any way out of it. [5]
Who puts the key in the desk and fastens it tight with the spring lock? [6]
That is what Jean Jacques meant to do; but if a man wants to keep a tight hand on money he should not carry it about in his pocket in cold, hard cash. [11]
Well, here he is, sure enough, in a tight silk shirt, and with two things that look like batter puddings in the place of his fists. [6]
Lacey's pistol was in his hand, David's sword was gripped tight, as they rushed upon the melee. [11]
It's a chance in a million, and when you win you've got this little State tight in your pocket, and a desk in the millionaire's club at Washington. [9]
Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods sometimes, and so that was a rest to me. [5]
He got to his feet and walked up and down the little room, his lips shut tight, his round eyes flaring. [11]
First he rings his bell fearlessly, but when he gets into a tight place he runs away as quietly as he can, and often thinking to escape runs straight into his opponent's arms. [2]
He was holding himself with a tight hand. [11]
Dey gathered roun' him to he'p him, en I jumped on his hoss en took out for de river as tight as I could go. [5]
The old man held one languid arm in his, and had the small hand tight folded to his breast, for warmth. [12]
The Frenchman, expecting he knew not what, sprang to his feet, snatching up a knife; but Gaston was on him like a hawk, pinioning his arms and lifting him off the ground, binding his legs too, all so tight that the Frenchman squealed for breath. [11]
The mansion-house which has had to "button itself up tight in fences, for want of green or gravel margin," will be advertising for boarders presently. [6]
She pressed her hands tight upon her ears and prayed with a passion and a fervour she had never known before. [11]
We held our hands tight on our hearts, striving to call to mind some few of the words we had meditated with intent to speak them in defence of Herdegen. [10]
For the ports had been closed as tight as gaskets could make them, the electric fans, as usual, obstinately "refused to march. [9]
It is very grand to "die in harness," but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders. [6]
Last month Samuels got tight, and Wright & Company were going to place the largest order in years. [9]
Well, he's a good looker and a fancy dresser, he ain't a tight wad, and he can start a laugh every minute. [9]
We never did get the load tight all over, but we got it so that it would do, after a fashion, and then we started, in single file, close order, and without a word. [5]
You can't keep gas in a bladder, and you can't keep knowledge tight in a profession. [6]
Send four or five thousand men before the day comes when famine does its work and they draw the bowstring tight. [11]
There was a feeling as if I had slipped off a tight boot, or cut a strangling garter,--only it was all over my system. [6]
Perhaps this was due to foolish arrogance, for after they had learned from rumour that Kuni had danced on the tight rope, they considered themselves far superior. [10]
She gathered her dressing-gown tight about her, and, going to the window, raised it high and leaned out. [11]
When I was dressed for dinner at six-thirty, I was too loose in some places and too tight in others, and altogether I felt slovenly and ill-conditioned. [5]
We were all dressed alike: broad slouch hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks; blue army shirts; blue overalls; leathern gaiters buttoned tight from knee down to ankle; high-quarter coarse shoes snugly laced. [5]
The time to draw it tight will come presently. [10]
The money market did not seem to be half so tight as it was the day before. [5]
But the buck did not come: he was very likely sleeping under one of the ledges on Tight Nippin. [4]
We moved the desk to the very front of the platform, and erected behind it a high, square board screen, like a section of tight fence round the fair-grounds. [4]
Is there any danger of one or the other growing tired of the intimacy, and becoming willing to get rid of it, like a garment which has shrunk and grown too tight? [6]

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